This page contains unmarked spoilers for Puss in Boots: The Last Wish due to the presence of its Walking Spoiler. You Have Been Warned!
CMC+ Bloopers is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover machinima by logbat99, inspired by Super Mario 64 Bloopers.
Set before version 8 of the game, CMC+ Bloopers is a series of interconnected videos revolving around The Chosen Many and their allies trying to stop Infinite and his minions from destroying the Crusade Modding Community, with hilarious results.
As a whole, the videos started as a few short 10-20 second videos, before moving into 6-player free-for-alls with CPUs fighting against each other. While both have continued (the former less so), the lore and characters involved have been consistently expanded upon when the story began after the tenth random match.
The random match videos also hinted that there was going to be an official game created using CMC+ V8's open build co-developed by YoinkySploinky1041, which contains a few additions not seen at all during the main series (including but not limited to Donald Trump) and is set in a timeline before the bloopers start. This explains the inaccuracies, such as Kali being a part of Infinite's team when she betrayed him in the videos.
As well as the traditional Recycled Soundtrack usage from source material, the game features original compositions by logbat99, YoinkySploinky1041, and Corrupt Crossover founder BadWolfMusic53.
(Note from Ed.: Because the credits have been slightly changed, and 85-90% of the music does not loop properly, this game will NOT get an official release in the future. Only that of the machinima.)
Represented Series
Playable Roster
CMC+ V8
- Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright
- A Certain Scientific Railgun: Mikoto, Kuroko, Misaka 10032
- Akatsuki Blitzkampf: Akatsuki
- American Political System: Barack Obama
- Among Us: Impostor
- Azure Striker Gunvolt Series: Gunvolt
- Battle K-Road: Mr. Bear
- BlazBlue: Ragna, Es
- Darkstalkers: Felicia
- Digimon: Agumon, BlackAgumon, Guilmon, Pegasusmon
- Dragon Ball: Goku, Vegeta, Frieza, Cooler
- Fire Emblem: Marth
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Foxy
- hololive: Korone
- The Incredibles: Mr. Incredible
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: DIO
- Kirby: Kirby, Meta Knight, King Dedede
- Mega Man: X, Weapons Archive
- Mortal Kombat: Sub-Zero
- My Life as a Teenage Robot: Jenny
- Neptunia: Neptune
- One Piece: Chopper, Ace, Whitebeard
- One-Punch Man: Genos
- Pac-Man: Pac-Man
- Pizza Tower: Peppino
- Pokémon: Pikachu, Mewtwo, Heracross, Incineroar
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Madoka, Homura
- SiIvaGunner: Smol Nozominote
- Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic, Tails, Shadow, Omega, Blaze, Rouge, Infinite
- Star Fox: Fox, Wolf
- Street Fighter: Ryu
- Super Mario Bros.: Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Dr. Mario, Waluigi, NES Mario
- Wario: Wario
- Super Smash Bros.: Primid
- Touhou Project: Reimu, Marisa, Cirno, Remilia, Reisen
- Undertale: Undyne, Asriel
- Deltarune: Spamton
- Original Generation: Golde Briggs, Geo, Mazadus, John Googly
CMC+ V7
- Akatsuki Blitzkampf: Fritz
- Crash Bandicoot: Crash
- Dragon Ball: Goku Black, Android 21
- Haruhi Suzumiya: Haruhi
- Mega Man: Mega Man
- Metroid: Ridley
- Microsoft Windows: Windows 10
- Mother: Porky Minch
- Pokémon: Zeraora
- RWBY: Weiss
- Original Generation: Dark Sonic
April Fools Build
- My Little Pony: Rainbow Dash
- Nintendo: Wii
- Plok: Plok
- YouTube: MrBeast, Banananote
- Mario Is Missing!/YouTube Poop: Weegee
- Tetris: Tetromino
Newcomers
- American Political System: Donald Trump
- Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning: Baldi
- Doki Doki Literature Club!: Monika
- Gundam: Gundam, Zaku II, Gouf, Z'Gok
- Mortal Kombat: Scorpion, Sektor
- M.U.G.E.N Original Generation: Blockhead
- OMORI: Aubrey
- Persona: Yu, Adachi
- Pingu: Pingu
- Pizza Tower: The Noise, Fake Peppinonote
- Rivals of Aether: Orcane
- Sailor Moon: Sailor Moon
- Senran Kagura: Yumi
- SiIvaGunner: HyperCam
- Sonic the Hedgehog: Metal Sonic
- Street Fighter: M. Bison
- Super Smash Bros.: Master Hand
Boss Collection
Characters are listed in the order they appear in Challenge mode.note- Akatsuki Blitzkampf: Blitztank
- Digimon Adventure: Greymon
- Digimon Tamers: Gallantmon
- Library of Ruina: Kali
- McDonald's: Ronald McDonald
- Elfen Lied: Lucy
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: Death
- M.U.G.E.N Original Generation: Golden Ronald (Optional Boss)
Non-Playable Characters
- Digimon: Starmon
- Mother: Rock Lobster
- Lobotomy Corporation: Red Mistnote
- Sonic the Hedgehog: Jimmy, Dr. Eggman
- Street Fighter: Juri
- Touhou Project: Nitori
YouTube Videos Only
- Mother: Porky Minch (April Fools)note
- One-Punch Man: King, Pig God
- Touhou Project: Sakuya, Flandre
Stages
- Arcana Heart
- Azur Lane
- Daft Punk
- DevilKeys
- Doom
- Final Fantasy
- Fortnite
- Friday Night Funkin' Game Mods
- F-Zero
- Garboy
- Mary Skelter
- Metal Gear
- Nasuverse
- Nekopara
- Neptunia
- Pilotwings
- Suguri
- Transformers
- Vocaloid
- Wii Fit
- World of Tanks
- Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Yume Nikki
Music
- Advanced Education with Viktor Strobovski
- Corrupt Crossover
- Danganronpanote
- deadmau5
- Doctor Who
- Geometry Dash
- Hotline Miami
- Jet Set Radio
- Just Shapes & Beats
- Katana ZERO
- Mother Russia Bleeds
- My Friend Pedro
- Pilotredsun
- Portal 2note
- Redout
- Rhythm Heaven
- RPG Maker
- Shantae
- Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion
- Super Hexagon
- Under Night In-Birth
- Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright
- A Certain Magical Index Mikoto Misaka
- A Certain Magical Index Sistersnote
- A Certain Scientific Railgunnote
- Akatsuki Blitzkampfnote
- Azure Striker Gunvolt: Gunvolt
- Baldi's Basics in Education and Learningnote
- BlazBlue: Central Fictionnote
- BlazBlue - Ragna the Bloodedge
- Crash Bandicoot: Heroesnote
- Darkstalkersnote
- Deltarune: Spamton
- Digimon Adventure Main Digimonnote
- Digimon Armor Digimonnote
- Digimon Champion Digimon N To Znote
- Digimon Tamers Partner Digimonnote
- Digimon - Royal Knightsnote
- Doki Doki Literature Club!note
- Dragon Ball - Android 21
- Dragon Ball: Cooler
- Dragon Ball: Frieza
- Dragon Ball: Goku Black
- Dragon Ball: Son Goku
- Dragon Ball: Vegeta
- EarthBound: Antagonistsnote
- Elfen Lied: Lucy
- Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light - Playable Charactersnote
- Five Nights at Freddy's: First Generationnote
- Friendship Is Magic: Rainbow Dash
- Haruhi Suzumiya (The Character)
- hololive - Inugami Korone Ch.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: DIO
- Kirby - Kirby
- Kirby - King Dedede
- Kirby - Meta Knight
- Library Of Ruina - Fixersnote
- McDonaldlandnote
- Mega Man (Classic) Heroesnote
- Mega Man X: X
- Mortal Kombat 3note
- Mortal Kombat – Bi-Han (Sub-Zero)
- Mortal Kombat – Hanzo Hasashi (Scorpion)
- Mother 3note
- M.U.G.E.Nnote
- My Life as a Teenage Robotnote
- Neptunia - Main CPUsnote
- OMORI – Main Groupnote
- One Piece: Tony Tony Chopper
- One Piece: Whitebeard Piratesnote
- One-Punch Man: S-Class Heroesnote
- Pac-Mannote
- Persona 4: Tohru Adachi
- Pingunote
- Pizza Towernote
- Pokémon: Generation I - Bulbasaur to Parasectnote
- Pokémon: Generation II - Qwilfish to Celebinote
- Pokémon: Generation VII - Oranguru to Melmetalnote
- Pokémon: Generation VII - Rowlet to Comfeynote
- Pokémon: Mew Duonote
- Pokémon Moviesnote
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Homura Akemi
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Magical Girlsnote
- Puss in Boots: The Wolf
- Rivals of Aethernote
- RWBY: Weiss Schnee
- Sailor Moon - Usagi Tsukino
- Senran Kagura: Versusnote
- SiIvaGunnernote
- Sonic the Hedgehog - Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik
- Sonic the Hedgehog - Eggman Empirenote
- Sonic the Hedgehog - Main Charactersnote
- Sonic the Hedgehog — Modern Era Antagonists 2note
- Sonic the Hedgehog - Recurring Charactersnote
- Sonic the Hedgehog - Sonic the Hedgehog
- Sonic the Hedgehog - Team Dark (Shadow, Rouge and Omega)
- Star Fox Teamnote
- Star Fox: Star Wolf Teamnote
- Street Fighternote
- Street Fighter II: The Four Kingsnote
- Street Fighter IVnote
- Super Mario Bros.: Bowser
- Super Mario Bros.: Mario Brothers
- Super Smash Bros. 4 - 45 to 49note
- Super Smash Bros. 4 - 50 to 55note
- Super Smash Bros. 4 - 60 to 63note
- Super Smash Bros. 64 - 01 to 04note
- Super Smash Bros. 64 - 05 to 08note
- Super Smash Bros. 64 - 09 to 12note
- Super Smash Bros. - Bossesnote
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 27 to 31note
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 32 to 39note
- Super Smash Bros. - Enemiesnote
- Super Smash Bros. Melee - 13 to 17note
- Super Smash Bros. Melee - 18 to 22note
- Super Smash Bros. Melee - 23 to 26note
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 64 to 69note
- Touhou Eiyashou ~ Imperishable Nightnote
- Touhou Fuujinroku ~ Mountain of Faithnote
- Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devilnote
- Touhou Main Characters
- Under Night In-Birth: Guest Fighters and NPCsnote
- Undertale - Floweynote
- Undertale - Undyne
- Wario and Waluigi
Tropes
- Adaptational Villainy: Justified for all examples as Peppino gives his pre-boss scream when they're in the match.
- The most obvious examples are Greymon and Gallantmon, both evolved forms of the starter Digimon in their respective anime. Because they're more powerful and harder to Ring Out, they are part of the Boss Collection.
- Ronald McDonald to a lesser extent, being based on Ronald McGiygas and being much darker than his M.U.G.E.N counterpart. Some in the series have likened him to Dark Donald with normal colours.
- Mazadus didn't have a fully-developed personality to begin with, not even in a custom Arcade route in which his only lines challenged the strengths of his opponents. Here he's a textbook Killer Robot who pulled a Heel–Face Turn on Infinite. He wouldn't be the only one to do that...
- Aerith and Bob: The six main antagonists of the series (five of which are in the Boss Collection) have the names Infinite, Gallantmon, Greymon, Blitztank, Death, and... Lucy?
- Affectionate Parody: Of Super Mario 64 Bloopers (in case it wasn't obvious enough in the title). Both are machinima filmed in video games, both of which involve Mario. However, CMC+ Bloopers dives into the SMG4 side of the bloopers due to the Massive Multiplayer Crossover status and its lore.
- Animal Motifs: As usual, Juri has spiders. Which gets complicated due to a rivalry with another character with a spider motif, Porky Minch('s ancestor).
- Animal Stereotypes: Death is so cunning he secretly plots to overthrow Infinite.
- Animate Inanimate Object: Plok is a living pile of clothes.
- Anthropomorphic Personification: A character exists based on Death itself.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:
- The random match titled "Trouble on the High Seas" features characters famous across their respective series' communities, and the Author Avatar of one of the character creators. In the sixth character slot is Barack Obama, the winner of the match.
- Of the possible songs that can play on stages, some are a little strange, such as the Doctor Who theme playing on the Hyperbolic Time Chamber, or the Monster High theme on Luigi's Mansion.
- Mr. Bear is the only non-Pokémon to be fought on Pokémon Stadium.
- In the Cloudsdale update, the last four slots on the character select screen were April Fools build veteransnote . This gets averted as of the Macbeth Update, since all characters are ordered alphabetically.
- Art Evolution: All lifted straight from the April Fools build, ironically.
- The solid-coloured fighter portraits used from the first short to the fifth random match turned into fighter portraits with gradients in every video after that. The percentage fonts have changed their styles to match CMC+, as they were incorrect back then.
- The "SCORE +1" and "SCORE -1" texts have had their styles changed from base Crusade.
- When Omori and Mutantheart were added to the April Fools build for its 2024 edition, Aubrey's OMORI series icon was updated to be pure white to match the rest of the icons.
- The Classic Mode Versus Character Splash was changed from a translucent black border to an opaque black border, both with red outlines. This has been described by logbat99 as "more cinematic". The wireframe stands turned from circles into hexagons, and like the score text, the "STAGE CLEAR" text has had its style changed.
- Bears Are Bad News: Mr. Bear. Although he's a partial Joke Character, he still means business.
- Big Bad: Infinite the Jackal.
- The Big Bad Wolf: Death, from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, is actually a subversion, as despite coming from a fairy tale-themed universe, he's not explicitly stated as such except in his unlock message.
- Brick Joke: In the description of the second random match (titled "Trouble on the High Seas"), logbat99 reveals he had specifically assigned Weegee to Player 3's slot so that if he is not the winner, he would run up and stand next to the victor, only for his face to be obscured by logbat99's channel icon on the end cards. This is exactly what happens in the match itself (he comes third). And his face is even more obscured by Barack Obama's victory pose.
- Can't Believe I Said That: Infinite when he says "Prepare for trouble" to a Pokémon.
- Cardboard Prison: What Lucy is seemingly kept in.
- Cerebus Rollercoaster: Due to the existence of Death itself personified as a wolf, Dumb Dinos on both the heroes' and villains' side, and an actual tank, it's hard to tell the serious from the silly.
- The Chew Toy: Android 21 on occasion. Here is one such demonstration.
- Company Cross References: With Corrupt Crossover infrequently in both the series and the official game.
- Sonic has a Palette Swap based on Sonic.exe.
- When fought in Classic Mode, some characters' versus themes match their leitmotifs in Corrupt Crossover:
- Sonic and Mega Man play the "Afterburner" lobby track from Fortnite and "Spectra" by Chipzel respectively.
- Subverted with Porky Minch who, despite having "Humans Are Such Easy Prey" as a versus theme, is the Despair Robot's ancestor.
- Zig-zagged with Infinite. Although he has "Killing Pool" as a versus theme, "Dangerous Diclonius" reveals that the two Infinites are separate entities.
- Upon losing a stock normally, Weegee and the Peanut Butter Jelly Time banana have a chance to let out a Wilhelm scream, a Running Gag throughout Corrupt Crossover.
- Weegee has a 50% chance of playing "Never Gonna Give You Up" as his versus theme in Classic mode. The rickroll is another common Corrupt Crossover Running Gag.
- In the Corrupt Crossover episode "Dangerous Diclonius", Jimmy, Rock Lobster, Blitztank, Death, Gallantmon and Greymon make appearances. The last two also have a brief conversation with Sonic.exe about bronies. Including how Infinite apparently is one.
- Also from Ultra Robot Wars are Metal Sonic, E-123 Omega, Blitztank, Mega Man, X, Jenny Wakeman, Sektor, and Blockhead.
- One song in Block World plays during Subject 8's (or rather, Something's) escape sequence in "There's Something Behind You". His source material also has some aspects of Yume Nikki in it, Black Space for example.
- The Final Boss of the second series is referenced. Both of Walpurgisnacht's Leitmotifs (the Neptune songs from Redout) play on the new Walpurgis Night stage. This is the reason why they are no longer Death's versus themes.
- Gallantmon is the Monster of the Week for "The Assault of the Royal Knight".
- Creator's Favorite: logbat99's favourite character is Death and his favourite stage is the Animal Realm.
- Dumb Dinos: Agumon and Greymon. Probably runs in the evolution line.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Before becoming essential to the lore, Greymon first appeared in the fifth random match, as Agumon's Super Mode transformation.
- Escaped from the Lab: Lucy escapes from an unknown laboratory, right in front of Jimmy and Rock Lobster, over and over again.
- Establishing Character Moment: Spamton's debut: he does a dodgy deal with Death.
- Evil Costume Switch: More like Evil Palette Swap Switch. Infinite's mass-produced clones use their Black Team alternate costume.
- Played for Laughs with the colour schemes of the clones of Windows 10 (brown), Pingu, BlackAgumon (both light grey), Baldi and Metal Sonic (both bright orange).
- There are additional Palette Swaps of characters that act as "supreme clones", such as Shadow Mario and Dark Weegee.
- Evil Doppelgänger: Peppino has one in the form of Fake Peppino. It's actually the original, unaltered version of Peppino in contrast to the edited version that is more Truer to the Text.
- Evil States of America: Played with in one blooper; Haruhi Suzumiya (Japanese) says that the US is evil by knocking Barack Obama off the stage. Greymon had apparently produced offscreen propaganda influencing Haruhi and driving her to this view. The revived Obama proceeds to destroy both of them.
- Expy:
- Death's personality here is clearly based on Sephiroth's. Both characters were heroes in war (crosses into Noodle Incident for Death), are considered the strongest character in their team, and have a Boss Rush in their respective Arcade routes. Death does not, unfortunately, have a One-Winged Angel form.
- Starmon is based on the Vigilante. While he's not fought in The Wild West, he still thinks all his opponents are wanted criminals.
- Apparently, 02 in the background of the Dark Star stage is a dead ringer for the Death Egg Robot's third phase from Sonic Forces. Makes sense, considering how the latter boss' Battle Theme Music can play on that stage.
- Played with for Infinite's Clone Army. It was initially based on the clones from Dragon Ball FighterZ, like Corrupt Crossover. However, this being a Super Smash Bros. fanwork, the series eventually made them similar to false characters from Brawl, in order to distinguish the two sets of clones.
- Extreme Omnivore: Pig God will eat anything, from hedgehogs to electric mice to dinosaurs to magical girls to wolfs to tanks.
- Fat and Skinny: Pig God and King, respectively.
- Fat Bastard: Pig God is the largest human character in the series. The trope is subverted as he's actually rather friendly to almost everyone including King, even if he's an Extreme Omnivore.
- Four Is Death: Pun not intended. Death has Four-Fingered Hands in contrast to The Chosen Many's and Infinite's five. He is the fourth villain overall to be introduced, after Infinite, Greymon and Gallantmon, and his first attack he ever does in the series is summon four pillars of pink flame.
- Gender Flip: In CMC+, Windows 10's sticker description confirms the character to be female. Outside of the official game, Bloopers gives him the explicitly male Microsoft Sam voice.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: Ronald McDonald in a nutshell. He's not connected with any of the bloopers.
- The Grim Reaper: Take a wild guess.
- Harsher in Hindsight: In the first random matchnote , Infinite is the first character ever to lose all their stocks and would later go on to be the Big Bad of the lore.
- Homage: According to Word of God, the members of the Boss Collection are this to Giga Bowser. Unlike most bosses in canon Smash Bros. having health that needs to be depleted, Giga Bowser (in Melee, at least) requires a Ring Out to defeat him, and the same applies to the Boss Collection.
- Hook Hand: Foxy is the only pirate to sport this. It's a common staple of his attacks too, such as his Down-B.
- In-Universe Factoid Failure: Gallantmon mistakes Seu Madruga as being an Original Character. Death has to correct him and tell him that this is the Brazilian Dub Name Change for Don RamĂłn from El Chavo del ocho. Coincidentally, in CMC+ as a whole, Death and Madruga are both "gods".
- Irony: Everything involving the Battle Bus. It doesn't help that one of its music tracks (Afterburner) is a Leitmotif for Sonic, and no prizes for guessing why.
- I Shall Taunt You: A Funny Background Event in the first random match. Amidst the chaos that is ensuing, at around the 1:48 mark, Spamton starts laughing his butt off for no reason while Remilia is shielding Bowser's rush towards both of them. This is the only taunt that happens in a random match.
- Joke Character: It helps that all of the below are Demoted to Extra in the official game.
- The two animal guards, Jimmy the Moto Bug and Rock Lobster, are very weak. Jimmy only has a ramming attack and nothing else whereas Rock Lobster's moves are underpowered. Makes sense for characters created specifically for April Fools' Day.
- Those Two Guys, Pig God and King. Where Pig God eats a fighternote costing them the entire game, King has no attacks at all, with the closest thing he gets to a proper moveset being a double jump... and that's it. Except when the timer on his portrait reaches 4 minutes, after which Saitama will rush in and One-Hit Kill everyone.
- The Juggernaut: Death is near-implacable, incredibly powerful and hard-to-hit. This is reflected in the official game with a difficult-to-beat AI.
- Kamehame Hadoken: Both Trope Namers are in The Chosen Many.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler:
- Everything involving Death, perhaps the biggest Walking Spoiler in the whole of DreamWorks Animation. This explains the warning at the top of the page; it's hard not to talk about him without giving away his spoiler-heavy role. (logbat99 himself reported on Discord that viewers or players who hadn't seen his source film yet were certainly in for a shock.)
- Infinite's Final Smash is a Colony Drop involving a virtual copy of the Sun itselfnote . This is exactly what happens during the climax of Sonic Forces, only this time, it succeeds.
- Lucy's backstory makes copious use of Kaede (not that Kaede).
- Three examples (originally four) for Peppino.
- His Final Smash is the same No-Holds-Barred Beatdown he gives when every single boss fights him near the end of the Final Boss fight in his source game.
- One of his Palette Swaps is based on Pizzahead, a Walking Spoiler who doesn't appear until the very end.
- Two versions of Peppino exist, one of whom is called "Fake Peppino". For those of you who haven't seen the Walking Spoiler fourth boss of Pizza Tower yet, that's literally his name in-series.
- He used to have one in the official game: one of his two versus themes was the soundtrack for The Crumbling Tower of Pizza, the final level of the game and yet another Walking Spoiler. This has since been cut in favour of the standard "Pizza Time" theme.
- One song that plays in the Subspace is the battle theme for Lusamine's Fusion Dance with Nihilego in Pokémon Sun and Moon. Downplayed; the song's official name according to the official soundtrack is "Showdown! (Lusamine)" whereas the official game gives it the Fan Nickname "Battle! (Mother Beast)" without giving away Lusamine's involvement in the plot.
- One of the new stages in the official game casually spoils the Brutal Bonus Level of Friday Night Funkin': Mario's Madness.
- Legacy Character: Porky Minch the dictator is the ancestor of Porky Minch the Despair Robot.
- Lethal Chef: Peppino doesn't know what his own cooking tastes like.
- Magical Girl Warrior: Sailor Moon, obviously.
- Medium Blending: The Home Stage for Barack Obama and Donald Trump is the Christ the Redeemer statue found in Rio de Janeiro. It's an actual photograph of the statue that is pixelated.
- Memetic Mutation: Invoked in-universe with Weegee.
- Ms. Fanservice: Yumi is perhaps an unintentional one. Her Kimono Fanservice happens by accident due to her D-Cup Distress.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: Foxy gets this treatment when forming an alliance with the One Piece cast (which happens regularly), given that he's not an official member.
- Mythology Gag:
- Peppino's pre-boss scream against villains, similar to bosses in Pizza Tower.
- Fake Peppino does this as well, but for a different reason: rather than being a Nervous Wreck, he hates how Let's You and Him Fight is happening in the match.
- The reason why the instrumental for "No Party", a song based on Mario Party DS Anti Piracy, plays on Luigi's Mansion is because there are several horror-themed boards across the Mario Party series (e.g. Horror Land in 2).
- A devlog reveals that before unique victory themes were scrapped, Foxy's was going to be the 60-second long version of the high score theme in Ultimate Custom Night that plays when the 50/20 mode is completed.
- Speaking of Foxy, if one of the clones he fights is of Fritz, the former will remark that the name sounds familiar. According to Five Nights at Freddy's lore, "Fritz" is also the name of one of the missing children who was killed and stuffed inside Foxy.
- Certain Home Stages can be this depending on the context. Take Spamton, for example: the Phantom Train is somewhat reminiscent of Spamton NEO's boss arena, and the City Streets have items at the bottom of the stage that cannot be collected, in reference to Spamton's role as a salesman.
- Peppino's pre-boss scream against villains, similar to bosses in Pizza Tower.
- Nervous Wreck: Wouldn't be Peppino without it. He's more of an Adaptational Badass here though, as he's not scared to beat the sauce out of Death itself. (At least, not in the machinima.)
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: For some reason, Barack Obama is a character in the series. He also has a Moveset Clone in the official game: Donald Trump.
- Non-Indicative Name: Throughout the lore, the Animal Realm does away with the Animal Motifs and focuses purely on the City Noir setting.
- No Plot? No Problem!: Subverted after the tenth random match, in which a plotline soon starts to develop between the Chosen Nine and the Boss Collection. The videos before this were apparently merely teasers.
- Notzilla: In-universe, Greymon sees himself as a parody of Godzilla. This comes to a head when he, as the Final Boss of Korone Inugami's Arcade route, actually calls himself Godzilla. And the stage he is fought on is the Animal Realm in contrast to his Home Stage Final Destination.
- Number of the Beast: At one point in Death's Final Smash, he deals 666% damage.
- Old, New, Borrowed and Blue: One cold open features this to describe the series:
- Old: The characters who were already in CMC+ V8, like the Chosen Nine and the Boss Collection.
- New: Characters like Sailor Moon and Blockhead who weren't in a CMC+ build.
- Borrowed: Characters like Android 21 and Porky Minch who appeared in prior builds of CMC+ but not V8. (Note that V8's Expansion Build makes this point outdated.)
- Blue: Sonic the Hedgehog.
- One-Hit Kill: As revealed in the fourth random match, the Assist Trophy version of the Peanut Butter Jelly Time banana causes an explosion about the size of Gallantmon that deals 300% damage, more often than not resulting in this. Downplayed in the video itself, in which the poor sap goes down in two hits.
- One-Steve Limit: It's revealed late into his first appearance that the Fake Peppino seen here is completely different from the Fake Peppino fought in Pizza Tower.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Played straight in the videos, subverted in the game. Foxy and Chopper are both well-known pirates, but outside of the latter's Arcade route, they don't get into much piracy.
- Plucky Comic Relief: Spamton G. Spamton is this series' version of Sans (according to his sticker description in the official game), being the main source of humour. He talks rather strangely as well.
- Precision F-Strike:
- One of Golde Briggs' Screen KO voice lines is "Son of a [bleep]ch".
- Barack Obama's Star KO.
- Mazadus blurts out two in a row during his route.Infinite: I see you are no longer faithful to me—
Mazadus: This isn't the fucking Traitors with Claudia fucking Winkleman!
- Prison Escape Artist: No prison or laboratory can hold Lucy. Lampshaded in her unlock message: "Diclonius Thirteen has escaped again."
- Production Foreshadowing: The third random match, released before the Corrupt Crossover pilot, features "Future Club" as the Background Music, which would later become the Leitmotif of Byakuya Togami in the latter work.
- Purposely Overpowered: Death is the most overpowered character in the entire game and series. Lucy comes in at a close second.
- Ronald. Freaking. McDonald. To start: he was originally designed as a playable superboss complete with a ludicrous method of unlocking him that must be redone when you fail to win against him. He has a ludicrously overpowered portrayal in the several fan games he appears in, including CMC+, and let's be clear: he is one hell of a Memetic Badass.
- If Death's Boss Rush has the enemy difficulty set to Nightmare, he fights Ronald McDonald in Golden Super Mode form from the April Fools build. In this form, Ronald's attacks are much faster, he has infinite double jumps and up specials, he can summon more than one exploding apple for the Side-B, and he has a Speed Blitz of air moves. The one mercy you're getting is that he can only airdodge once.note
- Rapid-Fire Comedy: This being made in CMC+, it's no surprise that some strangeness is going on in the series.
- Red Herring: Death's name of "The Big Bad Wolf" is entirely unrelated to him. Why he's called this by Infinite and in his unlock message is unclear.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: Greymon is the Red to Gallantmon's Blue.
- Retraux: How the Midnight Motorist stage looks. Even all the music is chiptune.
- Running Gag: Infinite saying "Prepare for trouble" in front of a Pokémon and regretting it. This extends to the official game's Arcade routes. Greymon's included.
- Satanic Archetype: Infinite and Lucy can both be seen as this.
- Infinite is a phantom jackal, known for his virtual reality, and is also sometimes seen to be Casting a Shadow. He can summon Zavok in his side special, who also looks like Satan, and Mephilesnote in his powered-up forward smash, who is already this trope. He also embodies most, if not all, of the Seven Deadly Sins.
- As mentioned in Lucy's character page, she was abandoned at birth due to being born as a diclonius, and she originally wanted to rebel against humanity, until she found out that Blitztank Was Once a Man. Louis Cypher is also in effect due to her name, Lucy. She is also Purposely Overpowered with hard-to-beat AI to mirror the Devil's violent nature.
- On top of all that, their Home Stage in the official game is the Devil's Machine. Infinite has a second: the Animal Realm.
- Serious Business: The series treats high quality video game rips this way. This is carried over into the official game, and includes rips from both King for a Day tournaments.
- Shotoclone: The unplayable Bit Character Don RamĂłn (Seu Madruga as he's called in-game) fights like this, featuring in his special moves: a fireball, a three hit kick combo, and an uppercut. The down-B is a rapid-fire kick at the ground similar to Waluigi back when he was an Assist Trophy.
- And in the official game, there are no less than nine as of the Artificial Sun Update: Mario, Luigi, Dr. Mario, Ryu, Akatsuki, Golde Briggs, Blockhead, Pingu, and Aubrey!
- Shout-Out:
- Infinite enjoys calling himself the Phantom of the Crossover.
- Greymon likes comparing himself to Godzilla.
- Spamton is first introduced with the "S stands for..." meme. This happens again in the Corrupt Crossover episode "Reconstruction of the Cybermen".
- Spamton's creator has the username "Steamedhams".
- Death's unlock message: "Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
- The sticker description for Gallantmon calls him Sir Kill-a-Lot.
- Spamton getting angry at the Final Boss of his Arcade route: "GO TO JAIL [[Go Directly To Jail, Do Not Pass GO Or Collect $200]]"
- Death's Arcade route is a Boss Rush. Just like Sephiroth's.
- Death also gets mistaken for Jimmy Crystal in another route.
- Many versus themes are from games unrelated to the character themselves. One example of this which also fits the source material is the fact that Mewtwo, Heracross, and Incineroar all have themes from Friday Night Funkin' Lullaby (a Friday Night Funkin' Game Mod based on Pokémon creepypastas).
- The Corrupt Crossover official bio for ChaosGallantmon is one big reference to The Man Your Man Could Smell Like.
- The Luigi's Mansion stage likes using Friday Night Funkin': Mario's Madness songs, one of which first appeared on the WarioWare stage.
- In Chopper's route, Foxy's reaction to Infinite's arrival in the last stage after the former's code is overridden and he causes The Mutiny.
- Mazadus' route has the character name-drop The Traitors when Infinite mentions he is "no longer faithful".
- The music for the bonus stages in Classic Mode is "Snap Judgement" from Wii Party U.
- Sinister Whistling: Death's trademark whistle is carried over into this series.
- The Smurfette Principle: Assuming Pikachu and Agumon are male (which they are), Reimu is the only female member of the Chosen Nine.
- Spotlight-Stealing Crossover: The Sonic the Hedgehog universe has the most characters in the webseries (one of them is even the Big Bad).
- The Starscream: Death, for some reason, secretly plots to overthrow Infinite.
- Synthetic Voice Actor: Windows 10 is voiced by Microsoft Sam.
- Take That!:
- One video proves that Greymon gets a little too into Cocomelon. Gallantmon blasts both him and the TV he's watching it on with one single Final Elysion.
- This from Chopper's Arcade route in the official game, and Infinite's first line of that route.Foxy: What do you think you’re doing? Get off the ship, you landlubber!
Infinite: Your movie sucked.
- They Killed Kenny Again: John Googly is the butt of jokes about death, notably his own which happens again and again. This is because in the original CMC+, he is apparently killed and revived using seven Dragon Balls the player must find in hard-to-find locations in Challenges. And then comes his unlock message in the official game. It's a Shout-Out to the Trope Namer.Oh, my God! They killed Googly! You bastard! JOHN GOOGLY joins the battle!
- Those Two Guys: Pig God and King.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Chilli dogs for Sonic, obviously.
- Trumplica: In-universe, Greymon seems to think that Porky looks like Donald Trump. To prove his point, he steals a can of orange paint from Fake Peppino and sprays Porky's mech with it. Funnily enough, the result is a Palette Swap that already exists in base Crusade.
- And then Donald Trump himself made it to the official game.
- The Voiceless: Lucy isn't really talkative here.
- Weird Crossover: For example: You have your top-rated series Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, Pokémon and Digimon. You have some of the lesser known stuff, like Elfen Lied, Akatsuki Blitzkampf and Pizza Tower. And you have not one, but two of The Presidents of the United States.
- Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing:
- Death in the quarter-finals of the Tournament of Power. How? Pingu ragequits.
- The Trope Namer himself attempts this, only to get one-shotted by Red Mist.
- The Worf Effect: In Seu Madruga's first and only appearance:Madruga: Let's see you get past a god of the Crusade Modding—!
[Weegee appears out of nowhere, grabs him, and throws him backwards]
Weegee: Am I glad he's frozen in there and that we're out here and that he's the sheriff - watch me swooce right in! [swooces right in, killing Madruga]
Madruga: No, no! I CANNOT BE BEATEN! - You Are Number 6: This is actually where Lucy's "Diclonius Thirteen" code name originates.
- Adaptation Distillation: In the original game when trying to unlock Death, he had a unique Battle Intro where he would appear on a different version of Battlefield with his Sinister Whistling in the background, teleport onto the stage, say "I'm Death, straight-up", and turn the entire stage to pink flame with his HP bar appearing. Cue Leitmotif and the start of the match. In Bloopers, he still has the HP, but there's no unique intro. Either because the code does not work in the open build, or because the stage is the Portal from Mortal Kombat II. Averted as of the Challenge Mode update, though you can still change his unlock requirements by modding.
- Adapted Out: In "All-Star Battle: April Fools":
- Weegee doesn't appear because his appearance in the April Fools build stems from his Limited Animation version, whereas Bloopers gives him his Art Evolution appearance from 0.9.4. His Home Stage Nairobi still appears as the stage the Peanut Butter Jelly Time banana is fought on.
- The superboss Golden Ronald is removed entirely.
- Amnesia Episode: Prior to and during Lucy's Arcade mode, she loses memories, including that of why she is slaughtering clones and working for Infinite.
- Anti-Frustration Features:
- Due to their Joke Character status, Jimmy, Rock Lobster, Pig God and King are not playable and are instead seen as common or rare stickers.
- Subverted for the characters in the Boss Collectionnote . When you unlock them, they are not exempt from the RNG, significantly making the game harder (Classic Mode for instance), especially with Death.
- As the Good Book Says...: Death's reveal trailer is accompanied by a quote from the New International Version of the Book of Revelation.note "[T]here before me was a pale horse!note Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth."
- Background Music Override: When Kali turns into Red Mist (press A+B), the music is replaced with "Gebura 3" from Library of Ruina. Double subverted as of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber's addition, as the music file has been removed from Kali's files and, when the Tower of Babel was added, replaced with "Venom Dusk" by Fixions.note Either way, if you hear this music and Kali's not on your side, be prepared for a world of hurt.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Obvious if the player chooses a villain's Arcade mode.
- Bait-and-Switch: In Death's Boss Rush, after defeating five boss-like characters, the screen shows a simple fighter on the Versus Character Splash. It's as if the game is treating you to a Breather Level... nope, it's a Wolfpack Boss of three clones at once. (As explicitly stated by the cutscene.)
- Boss Rush: Death's Arcade route, clearly based on Sephiroth's. Zig-zagged; one of the stages is against three clones at once, one of which is scripted to be John Googly.
- Bowdlerise:
- One of NES Mario's Palette Swaps is specifically designed to be racist (complete with the N-word in the name of the alt). CMC+ Bloopers removed it to avoid logbat99 being Mistaken for Racist.
- No prizes for guessing which word was removed from the announcer call of "Mr. Fucking Bear".
- Breaking Old Trends:
- Mario is not the first character on the character selection screennote .
- Not all of the original 12 make playable appearances. Donkey Kong, Link, Samus, Yoshi, Ness, Captain Falcon and Jigglypuff are all currently missing from the game.
- Brick Joke: The Scarlet Mansion's basement is a starter stage, containing the track "Dungeon Freakshow" from Pizza Tower. Nairobi is unlocked by clearing Arcade or Classic with Secret Character Weegee, and also contains "Dungeon Freakshow" ...except, due to the stage containing memetic music, it's SiIvaGunner's Beta Mix, a Pizza Tower-themed remix of "Revenge".note
- The Bus Came Back: Parodied given that this is not an official CMC+ version, but Windows 10, Mega Man, and Fritz, among others, return from V7.
- Canon Foreigner: Donald Trump and Mr. Bear weren't in the bloopers.
- Cast from Hit Points: Aubrey's headbutt forward tilt and Tien's Tri-Beam neutral-B; the latter fighter was cancelled for this reason.
- Cats Have Nine Lives: Cat Girl Felicia starts her Arcade mode with nine lives, assuming the Player Difficulty is set to Default. She'll need them. Her Final Boss is Ronald McDonald, who has a difficult AI.
- Character Select Forcing: Played with regarding Secret Character unlocks.
- Downplayed with Shadow and BlackAgumon's unlock methods. Either they are unlocked after a set number of versus matches at random, or Classic mode is cleared with any Sonic character (originally only Sonic) and Agumon respectively.
- A rare straight example is Donald Trump, whose unlock requirement is to complete Classic mode as Barack Obama on Normal or higher without continues.
- Climax Boss: The penultimate stage of Death's Boss Rush has you fight Lucy. The cutscene before it has Death reach the ARC Complex ready for his reward after defeating Fake Master Hand... then he hears Lucy humming the theme from Elfen Liednote and realises he's not finished yet. At the end of the fight, Death says "Get back in your cell, Diclonius Thirteen".
- Comically Missing the Point: This poor Primid in Bowser's route.Bowser: [H]ave any of you seen a Chuck recently? He has a message to deliver!
Primid: Chuck Norris?
Bowser: NO, YOU FOOL! A Chargin' Chuck!note - Composite Character: King Dedede has his Super Smash Bros. moveset and the personality of his anime counterpart. And not just in gameplay.
- Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Prior to the "Phantom Train Update", the game mistakenly said that the theme for the Mother Beast (the Lusamine/Nihilego Fusion Dance) came from Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon and not Pokémon Sun and Moon. This has since been fixed.
- Defeat Means Playable: In addition to the usual method of unlock fighters, the bosses have their own challenges through which they can be unlocked once cleared. Unlike the regular fighters, boss challenges can be re-fought.
- Demoted to Extra: Assuming they weren't cut from CMC+ itself:
- Being Joke Characters created for April Fools' Day, Jimmy, Rock Lobster, Pig God and King are only seen as common or rare stickers in the official game. Jimmy and Rock Lobster later go on to appear in Lucy's Arcade route, subsequently becoming random NPC fighters.
- Flandre Scarlet, a prominent character in the YouTube series due to her being Remilia's sister, has her role reduced to a rare sticker and a stage hazard on the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
- Another Touhou character, Sakuya Izayoi (Remilia's maid), appears as a rare sticker and her leitmotifnote can be heard on the Scarlet Devil Mansion. She was cancelled due to her time-stopping ability.
- Red Mist is reduced to a common sticker despite frequently appearing in the YouTube series' annual Tournament of Power, and would later become an NPC with the same Home Stage and versus themes as Kali, hinting that Kali and Red Mist are one and the same.
- Bit Character Seu Madruga does not appear in-game at all, though he is referenced via a Palette Swap for Peppino.
- The Duck Hunt Dog is playable in regular CMC+ (he was cut from V8) and ends up as an Interface Screw in Unbeatable in Bloopers.
- Department of Redundancy Department: As with Mega Man in regular Smash Bros., robotic characters can be equipped with a Metal Box, or fought as a metal opponent in the penultimate stage of Classic mode (except on Very Easy), when they're already made of metal. And then there's Metal Metal Sonic (note that the image shows scrapped character Denpa Man).
- Developer's Foresight: Weegee has code in his Arcade route that assigns a unique victory quote to Donkey Kong and his April Fools build variants, who are not in the game itself but can be modded in. It simply reads "Expand dong."
- Development Gag:
- At one point during development, Jin Kisaragi was cut due to his inability to use certain items without the sprite disappearing. His Leitmotif, "Lust SIN", can be heard in the Last Corridor, a stand-in for the Cathedral.
- To CMC+ itself of all things: Super Smash Bros. Crusade version 0.9.5 DEMO has a Training Stage and a stage based on WarioWare that aren't in CMC+. They are in this game, however, with the latter becoming Wario and Waluigi's Home Stage.
- Discredited Meme: In-universe:
- Goku's sticker description: "What does the Scouter say about his power level? Doesn't matter, really."
- DIO's reveal trailer features the line "You thought it was Sans... but it was I, DIO!" Death can only respond by walking offstage in disgust.
- Dual Boss: Make it through Classic Mode on Hard or Very Hard without continues, and Crazy Hand will join Fake Master Hand during his boss battle. The same thing happens during Death's Boss Rush on all difficulties.
- Dummied Out: In Arcade mode, Infinite has a unique victory quote against clones of the long-removed Lord X, claiming the latter scares even him.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Starmon, one of the bosses, can appear randomly as an NPC in Classic and Arcade mode. Zig-zagged; he only qualifies if the player has not taken on his boss challenge yet.
- Easter Egg: A comparatively common one. If Ronald McDonald is on the Devil's Machine (Challenge Mode, Death's Boss Rush or otherwise), Giygas will be influenced into saying unique quotes like "[fighter]... I'M LOVIN' IT!" that reference Ronald McGiygas.
- Establishing Series Moment: Not counting the Random Number God nature of the clones, not a single character in the game has Blitztank as their first Arcade opponent. Except Death, and that's because his route is a Boss Rush.
- Expy Coexistence: Greymon had previously established that Porky was a Trumplica. Come the official game, and Donald Trump himself is a playable fighter.
- Fake Difficulty: In Death's Boss Rush, the two hands are fought simultaneously. Although they have 100 less HP than when faced in Classic mode on harder difficulties, their attack patterns are independent of one another. Worse, they're not the Final Boss of the route.
- Final Boss: Infinite is this in many routes, with a few exceptions:
- Korone Inugami has Greymon, who sees himself as a Notzilla. Korone's route's Central Theme is Japanese culture, including that of kaiju. Prior to the fight, Greymon even calls himself Godzilla, before Gallantmon communicates with him and tells him to calm down. He's fought on a large City Noir (the Animal Realm), referencing giant monsters' habits of destroying buildings. Korone still has Infinite as a Pre-Final Boss, however.
- Felicia has Ronald McDonald. Keeping with Felicia's route's Central Theme of a Monster Mash, to mirror her home series, Ronald represents Monster Clowns, even though he doesn't look that monstrous (but his AI certainly is). He is fought on the Devil's Machine like Infinite usually is, which contains the infamously nightmarish Giygas in the background, adding to the monster motif. Unfortunately, the Ronald McGiygas Easter Egg is in effect. Like Korone before her, Felicia has Infinite as a Pre-Final Boss.
- Infinite himself has Shadow the Hedgehog, who wants to deal even more damage than simply disbanding the Jackal Squad. Infinite's already mowed through several rogue clones, two hedgehogs, one soldier and a rogue Blitztank unit, and wants to complete his quest of destroying the CMC without any more obstructions. If the enemy is on Nightmare difficulty, Shadow is accompanied by a rogue Blitztank unit.
- Death has a Death clone at the end of his Boss Rush. After defeating every other boss in Challenge mode except Golden Ronald, alongside Master Hand from Classic Mode and three clones at once, Infinite gives him one final task before Death is proven to be the strongest of the team: he must fight himself in a Mirror Boss battle. Also, since Death is normally the last character to be unlocked, it can be safe to assume that the Death clone is the Final Boss of the whole game.
- Four Is Death: Prior to the Challenge Mode update, Gallantmon was the fourth of the antagonists to be unlocked, and was unlocked by completing four hundred matches.
- 420, Blaze It: One song that plays in the menu is Macintosh Plus 420note .
- Funny Background Event: Mentioned but not shown during Infinite's route.Gallantmon: Also, Sonic's busy eating chilli dogs in the background for some reason.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: In contrast to the "Diclonius Thirteen" example under Sliding Scale of Gameplay and Story Integration, the aversion of Pokémon Speak is only present in Arcade mode cutscenes. In actual matches, the trope is played straight.
- Guide Dang It!: The method to to be able to fight the Optional Boss in Death's Boss Rush. The enemy must be on Nightmare difficulty before starting the route, and Death must not lose a stock in the first four stages. After this, Golden Ronald replaces normal Ronald.
- Hazy-Feel Turn: The premise of Infinite's Arcade route is that several clones are behaving in such a strange manner that they turn against him. He has to fight one in the ARC Complex and two in the Animal Realmnote . Then, upon returning to the ARC Complex after fighting Sonic, he is plunged into a free-for-all with three other random clones as the clones do not know which side they are supposed to be on. Tuns out Akatsuki used the Blitz Motor to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow, causing this behaviour. In the final two stages of the route, it's revealed that this effect isn't limited to clones. One or two Blitztank units, depending on the difficulty, also go rogue.
- Holiday Mode: Each showcase video uploaded in December features Christmas-themed music in the menu and Super Smash Flash 2's Waiting Room (for example, SiIvaGunner's Beta Mix of Blizzard Man Stage).
- Interface Screw: During the Unbeatable stage from Friday Night Funkin': Mario's Madness, Duck Hunt Dog, Bowser, Lakitu and Smick will appear in the centre of the stage to try to obscure the fighters.
- Interface Spoiler: Looking into the characters section of the Music Room will reveal a few additional fighters, for example, Jimmy and Rock Lobster from the main series; they are AI-only, and appear at random in Classic and Arcade mode.
- Joke Character:
- Joke Boss for Blitztank, a Sapient Tank that can jump, has a large hitbox, falls fast, and takes the most damage out of anyone.
- Mr. Bear is just a bear who fights like a shotoclone without the projectile.
- Fitting for a character released in the April Fools build: the Wii. It cannot crouch or taunt, fires Wii discs, and, like Blitztank, has a Final Smash that screams "There Is No Kill Like Overkill".
- Jump Scare: Part of the Content Warnings. Pingu has a Final Smash that effectively functions as one, as he creates a shockwave, and if he's close enough to an opponent, this video plays, covering the entire UI, only for Pingu to rush straight at the camera. It's a One-Hit Kill, as evidenced by the opposing fighter disappearing.note
- Leitmotif: Not only do characters have versus themes that do not come from their source material yet match it or their character, half the cast has two versus themes to add variety to the soundtrack, since logbat99 is the DJ of the game. Infinite is the only character with three.
- Limit Break: Averted for HyperCam who has no Final Smash.
- Mechanically Unusual Fighter:
- There are certain characters like Akatsuki and Mikoto who have a power meter above their portrait. When A+B is pressed, they initiate a Limit Break version of their special move. However, when A+B is pressed as Mikoto when she is on Level 3, her entire Final Smash meter gets depleted.
- For some reason, Baldi's back throw sends the foe flying forwards instead of backwards.
- The Wii cannot crouch or taunt. In the latter case, this renders it unable to gain the "Fighter Stance" 100-point bonus in Classic Mode.
- Pepsiman was cut because of his inability to grab.
- The Noise's neutral air sends him backwards.
- Monster Mash: The Central Theme of Felicia's Arcade route involves Felicia fighting monstrous characters to match the format of her home series. For example, Porky Minch represents spiders due to his Spider Tank, Wolf O'Donnellnote represents... well, werewolves, Remilia Scarlet represents vampires, and E-123 Omega has a yellow filter making him a stand-in for Huitzil. (Interestingly, her route is the only one without any clones in it.)
- Mood Dissonance: Fake Peppino's Home Stage is the bakery from Nekopara. Even if It Makes Sense in Context given that this is a visual representation of the other Fake Peppino's boss arena, which would later become Fake Peppino's self-owned restaurant, and not to be confused with the same restaurant seen in Corrupt Crossover, it's still quite silly to see two Cat Girls on the platform in which Fake Peppino is fought.
- Mood Whiplash: To be expected from a walking, walking Memetic Mutation. Right after the usual Final Boss fight against Infinitenote , we get this line from Weegee:
- Moveset Clone:
- Barack Obama has one in the form of Donald Trump, who is not available in regular CMC+.
- Conversely, the Wii is a partial one of R.O.B., who was in CMC+ but has yet to appear in Bloopers.
- Note from Ed.: Before the Final Boss of Madoka Kaname's route:Infinite: Oh, I'm [Charlotte's] partner in crime. (Developer's note: No, he isn't.)
- Optional Boss: Golden Ronald. His Challenge Mode battle is a superboss fight that does not unlock anyone immediately after it, and he is not fought in Death's Boss Rush except as a random clone. Unless the enemy difficulty is on Nightmare and Death has not lost a stock against the first four bosses, after which Golden Ronald replaces normal Ronald.
- Overly Long Gag: When Donald Trump wins, his victory pose is a copy of Obama's (to be expected from a Moveset Clone). The voice line has been changed to Trump saying "China" over and over again for at least two and a half minutes.
- Pass the Popcorn: After the scripted fight against Sonic in Infinite's Arcade route, Gallantmon reports that Sonic managed to find the chilli dogs he mentioned in Studiopolis Zone, and is eating them during the free-for-all with Infinite and three clones.
- Pirate Episode: Chopper's Arcade route for the Player Character. In it, Chopper teams up with Foxy to defeat the clones invading the Going Merry. This even extends to The Mutiny in the penultimate stage due to Foxy's code being overwritten, despite Infinite ironically not knowing what a mutiny even is.
- Play as a Boss: When you defeat them in Challenge mode. They even have their own Arcade routes.
- Subverted for Starmon. Though semi-playable, he has a limited moveset, no recovery outside of the universal airdodge mechanicnote , and no smash attacks, making him an NPC. He doesn't even appear in Death's Boss Rush of an Arcade route except when the clones are being Random Number Gods. (He still has his boss challenge, but it's used to unlock Pegasusmon.)
- Downplayed for Master Hand. He is a separate mod created by ThatOneGamingDude, and the Master Hand fought at the end of Classic Mode is referred to as "Fake Master Hand". Turns out clones can invade Classic Mode as well, intentional or not.
- Subverted for the optional superboss Golden Ronald. He too only appears as a random NPC.
- Random Event: Kali's Background Music Override. Instead of "Venom Dusk" by Fixions, there is a 1 in 256 chance that "Never Gonna Give You Up" will play instead.
- Recurring Riff: A lot of stages have Sparta remixes in their music lists. For example, Sector Z features the Sparta Antimatter Remix.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Obama and Trump sport these in their losing sprite on the results screen.
- Sequel Difficulty Drop: In-universe with John Googly's Secret Character unlock method. In the original CMC+, you were required to either complete Race to the Finish 2 as Joke Character Rock Lobster (V7) or find seven Dragon Balls in seven different challenges, in rather hard-to-find areas (V8). Here, you can just play enough versus matches.
- Sequel Difficulty Spike: On the other hand (also in-universe), Death is not fought by completing 9 versus matches. You have to defeat him in Challenge Mode, and boy is his AI extremely difficult.
- The fight against Fake Master Hand in his Boss Rush did this between updates. It's likely you will have faced him frequently in Classic Mode; as such his attacks are predictable and easy to avoid, even by Death's standards. So, what did logbat99 do when Chopper was added? Throw in Crazy Hand to turn the fight into a Dual Boss. (Yes, even on the easiest enemy difficulty.)
- Shaped Like Itself: You can fight a Metal Metal Sonic in Classic Mode.
- Sliding Scale of Gameplay and Story Integration:
- Lucy's .dat file has "Diclonius Thirteen" as the CSS name. Because Giygas follows the CSS name of the character in his dialogue, he'll end up calling Lucy "Diclonius Thirteen". It's possible that Giygas does not know who Lucy is and refers to her by a code name. Also, even the game itself calls her Diclonius Thirteen in the Music Room and in her unlock message!
- Speaking of Giygas, his stage is the Home Stage for Infinite and his henchmen (and Ronald McDonald), meaning he is somehow related to Infinite, who also calls Lucy "Diclonius Thirteen".
- Whenever Peppino is in the same match as at least one villain, he gives off his routine pre-boss scream during the countdown. The Peppino clones fought in Arcade mode do the same when they realise that one of their leaders is about to beat the sauce out of them. This is likely because they have the genetic material of the real Peppino.
- Soundtrack Dissonance:
- "It's just a burning memory" isn't a popular choice for a Platform Fighter menu theme, given that the album the song comes from is nightmarish and focuses on dementia. However, the title of the song refers to an event that happened prior to Lucy's Arcade mode: she suffered from memory loss. Foreshadowing, perhaps?
- Other menu themes are this in-universe. They are lobby tracks from Fortnite (Neo World and Justice).
- The rickroll used as a Running Gag is carried over from Corrupt Crossover to become one of Weegee's versus themes, and has a 1 in 256 chance of being Kali's Background Music Override. So if you have Death, Infinite and Ridley in the same match as him (for example), it's hard to take it seriously.
- Haruhi Suzumiya has a happy and upbeat synthwave versus theme, and her only Home Stage is a classroom in space with songs that are, except in this case, more dramatic.
- Suspiciously Similar Song: Invoked In-Universe (because logbat99 is apparently the DJ of the game) with character versus themes:
- Haruhi Suzumiya's theme, Frantic Aerobics, appears to mirror her anime's Dancing Theme. Overlaps with Soundtrack Dissonance as her only Home Stage is a classroom in space.
- The versus themes for Mikoto and Kuroko, both of which are composed by Perturbator, sound similar to "only my railgun" and "sister's noise"note , the themes for the first and second seasons of Railgun, respectively.
- Lucy's versus theme, "Black Racers (Alarmless Remix)", can be classed as an uptempo version of the Elfen Lied theme, which had no drums in it at all. It was chosen to make her Boss Battle more intense.
- 13 Is Unlucky: In addition to the "Diclonius Thirteen" case:
- Metal Sonic is unlocked after completing 13 matches.
- 13 songs play on Luigi's Mansion.
- Unexpected Character: In-universe: the sticker descriptions for Korone Inugami and Felicia, and Ronald McDonald's sticker description and unlock message, have the writer express confusion over why they're in the series and, by extension, the official game.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: Two in a row during Death's Boss Rush.
- In stage 4, he fights Kali, with a dark red, blood-like sword that deals massive damage. And if he doesn't defeat her quickly before her meter fills, she unleashes a more powerful Red Mist-inspired second form.
- Then there's Ronald McDonald in stage 5 whose AI we've gone over elsewhere. He's fought on the Devil's Machine, which contains the gimmick of the stage zooming out to reveal (Ronald Mc)Giygas' text on the screen, making it harder to see Ronald's explosive apples (unless you pause and use the camera).
- Warm-Up Boss:
- Jimmy can be this assuming the only eleven canon Arcade routes are played in the order suggested in the readme file (i.e. Sonic first). His only attack is a dash directly forward, and he has limited recovery.
- The rogue Blitztank unit (as implied by the cutscene) in Death's Boss Rush. It is the largest character in the game, giving it a large hitbox, therefore rendering it susceptible to Death's large combos that deal high damage to it. Its attacks don't deal that much damage, save for the side smash in which it rams towards Death and the One-Hit Kill Final Smash. However, it takes a little over 200% for it to be launched proper.
- Wham Shot: Play enough versus matches and you get a "challenger approaching" screen with Peppino's silhouette on it. Peppino himself is available at the start of the game. The unlockable character in question is his Evil Doppelgänger Fake Peppino.
- What Could Have Been: Several characters were planned for the game but ended up scrapped for reasons not in line with the game. Examples include:
- Mr. Game & Watch, Denpa Man and Hazama were cut because they produce null palettes when selected to be Arcade clones. In other words, they turn entirely black.note
- Tien's Tri-Beam neutral-B is Cast from Hit Points.
- Loona's Final Smash has a Precision F-Strike on the sprite.
- Lord X features a loud Jump Scare in his Final Smash.
- Don Ramòn was removed due to the high difficulty of the AI.note
- Jin Kisaragi, Deku and Juri cannot pick up items without the sprites suddenly disappearing.
- Sandbag was removed on the grounds that a Sandbag item already exists.
- Pepsiman is unable to grab.
- Shinki's Final Smash turns the entire stage red for the rest of the match. On certain stages burning buildings can be seen in the background.
- Shinki, Neco-Arc, and Dark Star cannot Board the Platforms properly.
- Jesus from the April Fools build is unable to be KOed at all. The reason? He can resurrect himself from the dead as stated in The Four Gospels.note
- Drobot's neutral-B does not do enough damage without Button Mashing.
- Downplayed with Starmon, who was going to be part of the Boss Collection, but it was discovered he has minimal recovery. He was made into an NPC.
- What If?: The Central Theme of Infinite's route is an alternate scenario, showing what would happen if his clones turned against him.
- Wolfpack Boss: The three clones that gang up on Death in stage 6 of his Boss Rush. One of which is scripted to be John Googly.
- Your Mom: In Zeraora's route.Zeraora: Roughly how big is [Infinite's] latest evil plan anyway?
Greymon: (interrupting) About the same size as your mom.